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Here’s a short poem I wrote. 2B Or Not 2B 2B or not 2BThat is the pencilWhether it is Nobblier in the line toScuff the springs and marrowsOf outmoded pictorial representation,Or to take snaps upon the digital?To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hueOr to take lines of sea and rubbleAnd by Photoshopping them, […]

The UK Slam Championships last night was one of the best Farrago Poetry events I’ve been to. It was an honour and a pleasure to have been asked to judge, along with Charles Shaar Murray, by Farrago founder John Paul O’Neill. The Slam contest is interspersed with guest feature poets. I read from Reaching for

Dr Broderick Chow, lecturing in theatre studies at Brunel University and a performer in his own right, was an early commentator on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s casting fiasco for The Orphan of Zhao. Here is his article — Two dogs and a maid — which he posted on Friday 19th October at his Dangerology website.

Statement released by AAPAC today on Facebook. Wonderful solidarity from our American bredren. This is so fantastically moving. I feel I am learning so much about these issues — a very fruitful time for all of us. AAPAC PROTESTS THE RSC. ACTION NEEDED! AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition) stands in support of our British

Anna Chen – Monday, 22 October 2012 This morning the Guardian online published my comment piece under the title: Memo to the RSC: east Asians can be more than just dogs and maids It’s no fun being bred out of the cultural gene pool. Watching TV, theatre or film, I’m on constant alert for a

Here’s Yellowface, a poem I wrote in 2009 after making a programme for BBC Radio 4 about Anna May Wong, and seeing the same old crap happening in British theatre. The comment that it no longer happens is ironic. Sadly. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/